Should I unpark my stock i7 2700K?

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TheTenaciousOtaku

TheTenaciousOtaku

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I was chatting with some people on Battlefield 4 today in regards to performance, and someone mentioned unparking the CPU. I read an article on the internet which claimed that windows only lets 2 cores run and renders the other 2 practically useless. Is this true? (I have my power options set to performance).

My specs,
- Intel core i7 2700k 3.5GHz
- GTX 570 SLI
- 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 at 600MHz
- 850 Watt Corsair power supple
- CPU watercooling
 
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1) Windows 8 64-bit is the best OS for BF4. The game has specific code that ties in with the way the CPU works. This may actually have to do with unparking but I'm not sure.

2) Unparking is a little confusing and much of the info is contradictory, but I don't think many games would benefit from forcing the unparking off (preventing parking).

3) HDD and unparking:
This has nothing to do with this topic. A hard drive parks it's head when it powers down (like a record player). The only time that would affect a game is if you needed to load a new level and the hard drive had gone to sleep so you wait a few seconds for it to start up (I suspect this would never happen though because if you access it at all the shutdown timer, i.e. 20...
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As I understood it, unparking is only required as a fix for specific problems. Unless you have an issue with a game (like unexplained frame rate drops, or much lower than expected performance) then it probably isn't necessary.
 
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TheTenaciousOtaku

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Well I'm getting pretty odd performance with Battlefield 4. 60-75fps on High settings...

Does unparking affect hard drive loading speeds and things like that? Or is it just for games and only very specific issues?
 
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It won't improve your HDD speed- if you're machine has long load times perhaps time to look at buying an SSD- they're *much* faster.
 
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1) Windows 8 64-bit is the best OS for BF4. The game has specific code that ties in with the way the CPU works. This may actually have to do with unparking but I'm not sure.

2) Unparking is a little confusing and much of the info is contradictory, but I don't think many games would benefit from forcing the unparking off (preventing parking).

3) HDD and unparking:
This has nothing to do with this topic. A hard drive parks it's head when it powers down (like a record player). The only time that would affect a game is if you needed to load a new level and the hard drive had gone to sleep so you wait a few seconds for it to start up (I suspect this would never happen though because if you access it at all the shutdown timer, i.e. 20 minutes, gets reset).
 
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